My dad uses Google Maps, and he mentioned that it seems to be getting worse. Like, giving him directions that are obviously worse than alternatives. Has anyone else here experienced this?

  • @superkret@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    They switched from giving you the fastest route by default to giving you the one that uses the least gas.
    They also now offer alternative routes that take you past businesses which paid money to Google.

      • @superkret@feddit.org
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        63 months ago

        I know. But I won’t.
        Hypermiling is as fun to me as driving fast is for others.
        It’s like a mini-game I get to play every time I’m forced to drive a car.

        • edric
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          43 months ago

          I hypermile casually but I’m not sacrificing travel time to save a bit of gas.

        • @MonkRome@lemmy.world
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          23 months ago

          Ahh, I misinterpreted your post as a complaint. I’m not a hypermiler, but I do find the efficient routes are often the lowest stress routes as well.

    • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      13 months ago

      Elites loves to treat working class time as a zero-value resource. It’s just assumed that everyone is willing to give up hours a week if it means using fewer plastic bags, or less gas, or taking a bus instead of a car, or charging their car during off peak hours, or whatever.

      Time is treated as negligible in value.